Fukushima radiation levels detected at highest levels since Tsunami!

CNN International covers the item headlined above, linked here! In the five months since the tsunami and disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant, the West's media seems recently to have mostly pretended that the accident never took place.  Obtaining radiation levels across the world, in spite of the supposed interconnectedness of the internet, is no easy task.

This blog has tended to follow this matter because at the time the tsunami began to strike the coast of Japan, I made merely one post on that day, unusual even then, and for some reason it appeared as follows:

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Friday, March 11, 2011

11-3-11 An interesting day!

This blog will have no further postings until 13-3-11 or as Americans would put it 3/13/11.

Labels: 11-3-11

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I know why I expected not to be able to blog for two days, I went to Naujac-sur- Mer, (for a memorial service,) as detailed in later postings, but why did I choose to describe the date as interesting.  History, of course, will decide that day will be remembered for this!

Why have we ignored the radiation levels flowing from Fukushima? I have blogged from time to time as may be re-read from here, but useful facts are few and far between and difficult to track down. Maybe the news is so bad and the solutions available to mankind so few or useless, that it is perhaps better that as few people as possible really know!  If so 11-3-11 will have been a day proving to be far more than just merely interesting.

Fukushima Radiation Risks and German Infantilism!

In early April I alerted my blog readers to the radiation risks in Europe from the Fukushima catastrophe, by a link to this report. The absence of further news since then has been deeply suspicious, now we have been informed that the dangers have been concealed and that the EU Ombudsman is to investigate, read here.

Alerting adults to existing dangers and comparative levels of risk, should be a prime responsibility of any democratic state! No wonder it is missing in the EU!

Germany's early  kneejerk reactions to shutdown certain old nuclear power plants were hardly the sign of a mature democracy at work. If the day before the shutdown the national regulatory agencies were functioning properly and the safety environment imposed by the state had previously been adequate, the events brought on by a Pacific Ocean tsunami, hardly seemed a proper reason for such an alarmist government decision. After all, the day after Fukushima, nothing had changed in the operating environment for German nuclear plants. Had France followed the German lead I imagine, this blog would have been largely silent over the past month or so.

Similarly the announcement by the German Coalition Government yesterday to shut all its nuclear power plants from 2022, linked here is similarly alarming.

This is the nation that presumes to run Europe. German electors, through the ruthless use of their economic power, will in the very near future, if the EU is not soon abandoned, be the only voters in Europe who have any say in how our Continent is run, yet their own elected politicians increasingly treat them as though they were unreasoning children!

German voters deliver shattering defeat to Merkel

In an event, likely to be of huge significance for the whole of the EU, Germany's Green Party appears, this morning, to have won control of the wealthy German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a wealthy region along Germany's border with France and Switzerland, which has been under the control of the Christian Democrats since 1953. Read the Wall Street Journal report from here.

A video, highlighting the immaturity of the voters who have delivered this further disaster to European democracy, may be viewed here:

EU's Energy Commissioner downgrades Japan's nuclear crisis from "Apocalypse" to "Catastrophe"

In this blog editor's understanding of english, a "catastrophe" seems less severe than an "apocalypse".

Maybe its different in German! In either event it once again demonstrates that in picking EU Commissioners the general rule of picking the dumbest possible candidate still seems to apply!

If you do not believe this is true, read yesterday's remarks, reported here, and today's from here.